If you fit the description you might be the person we are looking for! We are a group of smart people passionate about cloud computing and believe that world class support is critical to customer success.
WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT FROM A LIFE AT AWS?
Every day will bring new and exciting challenges on the job while you
Learn and use groundbreaking technologies. · Apply advanced troubleshooting techniques to provide unique solutions to our customers' individual needs. · Interact with leading engineers around the world. · Partner with Amazon Web Services teams to help reproduce and resolve customer issues. · Leverage your extensive customer support experience to provide feedback to internal AWS teams on how to improve our services. · Drive customer communication during critical events. · Drive projects that improve support-related processes and our customers' technical support experience. · Write tutorials, how-to videos and other technical articles for the developer community. · Work on critical highly complex customer problems that may span multiple AWS services.
Key job responsibilities
WHAT DOES A CLOUD SUPPORT ENGINEER DO AT AWS?
First and foremost this is a customer support role - in The Cloud. · On a typical day a Support Engineer will be primarily responsible for solving customers' cases through a variety of customer contact channels which include telephone email and web/live chat. You will apply advanced troubleshooting techniques to provide tailored solutions for our customers and drive customer interactions by thoughtfully working with customers to dive deep into the root cause of an issue. · Apart from working on a broad spectrum of technical issues an AWS Support Engineer may also coach/mentor new hires, develop and present training, partner with development teams on complex issues or contact deflection initiatives, participate in new hiring, write tools/script to help the team, or work with leadership on process improvement and strategic initiatives. · Career development: We promote advancement opportunities across the organisation to help you meet your career goals. · Training: We have training programs to help you develop the skills required to be successful in your role. We hire smart people who are keen to build a career with AWS so we are more interested in the areas that you do know instead of those you haven't been exposed to yet. · AWS Premium Support is a 24/7/365 operation and shift work will be required to include nights weekends and holidays.
You will need to be a UK national and able to obtain and maintain a UK Government Security Clearance. Further details found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels
About the team
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that's why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve in the cloud.
Here at AWS, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Experience in software development, or experience in technical support
Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
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